Ilaiyaraaja filmography (Intro)

[Dev Mannemela]

A couple of years ago, I started maintaining a list of
all Ilaiyaraaja movies. I have posted the list periodically
on the net, the last was I think in Jan 1996. Since then
the list has grown quite a bit and it is quite comprehensive.

It lists out
593 tamil movies (167 additions to the 1996 list)
72 telugu movies
17 in other languages (Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and English)

Thanks to
Ramkumar Perumanam (ra...@novell.com)
Prakash Balakrishnan (prak...@aol.com)
Ramakrishnan
Balaji Thirumalaikumara (bthi...@crescent.daisy.com)
Rajesh Ramachandran (raj...@sasoft.com.my)
Vasantharajan Janakirahan (vas...@cc.umanitoba.ca)
Satish Subramaniam (subr...@c.umn.edu)
Film Directors Bapu and Vamsi
for helping me out in this endeavor.

I will be posting the list in three parts.

O His very best ( and recommended..) soundtracks are marked with a '*'.
(Totally subjective and definitely not comprehensive)
O For some movies, I have listed some songs and the year of release
and the actors/directors etc. To do this comprehensively would definitely
be another project.
O For those who have seen this list before, I have marked
the recent additions with "(NEW)".

Some IR stats:

Assorted milestones:

1st film: Annakili (Dir: Devraj - Mohan Year: 1976)
100th film: Moodu Pani (Dir: Balu Mahendra Year: 1980)
200th film: Ayiram Nilave Vaa (Dir: K.Rangaraj Year: ?)
300th film: Udhaya Geetham (Dir: K.Rangaraj Year: 1985)
400th film: Nayakan (Dir: Mani Rathnam Year: 1987)
500th film: Anjali (Dir: Mani Rathnam Year: 1990)
600th film: Dalapathi (Dir: Mani Rathnam Year: 1991)
700th film: ???

National Awards:

Sagara Sangamam ("Telugu" Dir. K.Viswanath Year: 1985(?) )
SindhuBhairavi ("Tamil" Dir. K.Balachander Year: ? )
Rudraveena ("Telugu" Dir. K.Balachander Year: 1988(?) )

Comments/additions/deletions are very welcome.

/dev
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[Mahesh Mudigonda]

Looks like I hv found the right person /right forum to ask!

Can I get help in finding a release of Ilayaraja's Symphony - u know the
Grand..

Its awesome that one can be so good and so prolific at the same time,
and so sure about his mental picuture that he needs no modifications
to his initial concept !

Mahesh

Dev Mannemela wrote:
>
> A couple of years ago, I started maintaining a list of
> all Ilaiyaraaja movies. I have posted the list periodically
> on the net, the last was I think in Jan 1996. Since then
> the list has grown quite a bit and it is quite comprehensive.
>
> It lists out
> 593 tamil movies (167 additions to the 1996 list)
> 72 telugu movies
> 17 in other languages (Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada and English)
>

> National Awards:

>
> Sagara Sangamam ("Telugu" Dir. K.Viswanath Year: 1985(?) )
> SindhuBhairavi ("Tamil" Dir. K.Balachander Year: ? )
> Rudraveena ("Telugu" Dir. K.Balachander Year: 1988(?) )
>

> Dev Mannemela de...@spimageworks.com